Along with the God of Law - Chapter 417



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417.

The argument between Kang Hyun and Park Min-seong continued for a while.

“Please give me 30 minutes.”

“Hey, junior, what kind of plan are you trying to come up with in 30 minutes? Just start over in a few days.”

“It will be too late by then.”

Park Min-seong knows that too. But he had to admit what needed to be admitted. Another operation in a short period of time? It’ll be hard.

“No matter what, it’s impossible. Failure today is failure. Are you trying to kill me and wait for something to appear? That won’t get you anywhere.”

“no.”

“Hey, why did you bring me here?”

Park Min-seong was about to explode.

The derailment of a commander has a greater negative impact on the organization than expected. This is because each team is at risk of missing important things while standing still or being distracted in a dangerous situation.

It was quite risky for Kang Hyun to improvise and increase the number of on-site personnel like this. There might not be a clear solution within the given time.

But Kang Hyun was stubborn.

“30 minutes. Time to think.”

“Hey. 30 minutes won’t do.”

Park Min-seong thought that Kang Hyeon had gotten the time mixed up for a moment, so he pointed to his watch and made a gesture to call again.

Then Kang Hyun nodded and made 2 and 9 with his fingers.

“Please give me 29 minutes.”

“…What are you going to do?”

“I will analyze the case.”

“Here?”

If it were in the past, there would have been a reprimand.

Now, everything was different. To Park Min-seong, Kang Hyeon was an unrivaled ‘expert in this field.’

“… .”

Kang Hyun-eun glared at Park Min-seong with a frustrated expression, and confidently suspended all members of the investigation team.

To avoid disturbing the fingerprint collector, he moved to a chair on one side, spread out a map, and began to draw something.

“Why a map?”

Swish swish.

Kang Hyun was now marking the locations of each incident with dots and drawing circles of a certain size around them.

Out of the 10 cases, there was no movement and the buyer received the drugs.

Then, he wrote down in small detail the time the recipient was caught and the time he was estimated to have brought the goods.

It was obvious what he was doing, but it was difficult to know what he was thinking.

Swish, swish.

As Kang Hyun’s artistic work progressed, time began to pass quickly.

30 minutes left… 29 minutes… 25 minutes left.

It wasn’t a very long time, but every second felt real to Park Min-seong as he looked at his watch.

Time continued to pass.

By the time Kang Hyun got up from his seat, the orchard had already left and the police line had been cleared, so it was judged that there was no need to draw a line.

“It doesn’t make sense that the dropper did real-time delivery.”

Park Min-seong tried to think about the meaning of those words for a moment, then glanced at his watch and immediately asked a question.

“What? Don’t beat around the bush and tell me straight away.”

“Even if they exchanged passwords, told us their location, and set off immediately, the physical delivery time was too short to even get the package there.”

“Physically short?”

“Yes. Physically. The time between when Prosecutor Park Hyun-sung gathered buyers through the ‘dark web’ and when the ‘droppers’ should have moved is too short. It doesn’t make sense that we didn’t see the droppers in even one case, as if one investigation team made a mistake.”

“I don’t make assumptions without evidence. I need a concrete reason.”

“look.”

Kang Hyun spread out the map. Some of the circles he drew were diagonally crossed out, and some were marked with an X.

“If the moment droppers confirm that the order has been completed on the dark web, they start exchanging the password through messengers and start delivering, then the time it takes for buyers to receive the goods is strange.”

“What time is it picked up?”

“Common sense tells me that if an addict knows that the ‘drugs’ they bought with their own money are somewhere near a residential area, they will move as soon as they confirm the location. They are anxious.”

“I guess so.”

“But the ‘pickup time’ confirmed to buyers by each team is almost 99 percent perfect, even though there is a distance between the pickup locations.”

Indeed, it did. Not having taken this into account, the estimated time it took buyers to find the illegal drugs that had been ‘dropped’ was roughly the same.

“There was no term.”

“Yes. They came out at exactly the same time and took the items. ‘Direct delivery’ had physical limitations, so it had to be done in the morning, afternoon, over two days, over three days. That’s how it should have been done.”

“Did three of them turn around at the same time?”

“No. I didn’t catch even one of the three.”

“Then what?”

“He didn’t come.”

“…?”

“They have already spread the ‘drugs’ all over Seoul, shamelessly.”

“…?”

“They spread it out in advance, whether it was a few months or a few weeks ago, and then they just sat in front of their computers and sent a ‘password’ to the buyers in the receiving area.”

It was a pretty brutal guess, with insight added to Kang Hyun’s experience. Park Min-seong thought for a moment about whether this made sense.

His imagination was truly shocking.

On a quiet residential street corner, next to a mailbox that had been empty for months due to circumstances, next to a bag of food for stray cats, dirty pipes, and a clean chair on the floor.

In these ordinary places where anyone can just stick their head out and say, ‘I have to take a look,’ drugs that destroy the very foundation of humanity, including ‘synthetic cigarettes,’ have already been scattered?

Oh my god, that was Park Min-seong spitting out curses and sarcasm.

“… If we’re lucky, the addicts might be able to find some for free.”

“That’s right. On the contrary, in the areas where the drugs were ‘not sprayed’, no one received them. They act selfishly and calculatingly. Those guys.”

Park Min-seong nodded slightly at the circle that Kang Hyun had marked with an ‘X’.

“Then, what we have to do now is to prove ‘this conjecture.’”

“Yes. Outside of this ‘X’ area, we need to thoroughly search the surrounding areas where the ‘buyers’ received their drugs to see if there are any similar drugs hidden there. If this hypothesis is correct….”

Finally, 30 minutes after the promised time, the radio rang.

It was Team Leader Hong.

-What should I do, sir? Should I keep waiting?

“No. Now, we will move to each team’s location. After checking the map, I will assign search areas based on each team’s possible movement radius.”

-Huh? Search site?

Before Team Leader Hong could even understand the meaning of the words, Kang Hyun added.

“I will search all the places in the area I have designated, the Bangbae-dong area, where drugs may be hidden. Flower beds, walls, under drain covers, benches. Please search thoroughly, no matter where, for however long it takes.”

-All right!

“Operation, we will implement it immediately. I don’t know how long it will take. Please consider it for three days from today, or at most a week.”

-Yes, yes, good! Loyalty!

He answered cheerfully. Kang Hyun looked at Park Min Sung as if to ask if he now knew the answer.

The first fight was a decision loss.

However, Kang Hyun had a next round.

Because they wouldn’t run away and they didn’t seem to have any intention of giving up the ‘business’ they had.

Park Min-seong said.

“…what if ‘that hypothesis’ is true?”

“… .”

“If the idea that these guys are scattering illegal drugs indiscriminately all over Seoul is really correct, then what if there are drugs hidden in Bangbae-dong, or even all over Seoul?”

Then Kang Hyun looked down at the floor for a moment.

It was the spot where, just a moment ago, a woman had been lying, writhing all over her body and groaning in pain and pleasure.

Then, after thinking about it, he said:

“This way, we can find them.”

Kang Hyun raised his head.

“War on Drugs.”

Harvest the seeds you sow before they bloom.

Since they can’t stop their ‘business’, they will sow the seeds in other ways.

Before the ‘illegal drugs’ that spread throughout Seoul and the entire country bloomed.

Kang Hyun planned to counter this with the term ‘war on drugs’.

* * *

“Tsk, hiya.”

Team Leader Hong let out a gasp. He was wearing red gloves on both hands, and he put his hands into the artificial gap in the red stone wall. After searching for a moment, he came out and found something on his gloves.

“… Here they come again. These crazy kids.”

An all-out investigation was conducted.

My initial guess was that there would be around ten cases.

If it’s packaged in bundles of 10 grams, I would think that about 100 grams would be found in this area.

However, the number of ‘hidden illegal drug bags’ they found has already exceeded thirty.

These ranged from less than 0.1 grams, the size of a fingernail, to 10 grams, and even up to 50 grams.

They are wrapped tightly with blue tape or box tape in white, tough plastic bags, so that anyone can see that they look like trash.

But in the eyes of experienced police officers, they were dangerous sources of evil in every way.

“Ugh.”

“You’re out again?”

The search of the Bangbae-dong area was expected to take at least three days, and more than a week.

In just two days, they recorded a seizure that far exceeded their quota.

Step, step.

Kang Hyun with a dark expression, and a more solemn expression than anyone else.

In the middle of the police, court team, and investigative team gathered at the prosecution office’s seizure warehouse, I looked through the piles of bags.

“German silver?”

“… the gram unit will be greatly exceeded.”

“oh my god….”

The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Field Analysis Lab, Na Ye-an, gave a brief greeting and brought out the measuring equipment along with the staff.

Since it is a special item that is sensitive to even 0.1 gram units, a digital scale that can distinguish even the smallest weight errors and several protective items made for safety were provided.

“I will begin the precise measurement. You may observe as you wish.”

It seemed like it would take an hour, or at most two hours, to get an accurate weight.

“… .”

“… .”

But there was not a single person who tried to leave this place.

The first reason is because there is so, so surprisingly much vinyl.

The second reason is because these were scattered to this extent in advance.

Thirty minutes passed.

And an hour passed.

Even as the staff in the analysis lab were sweating profusely and repeatedly taking measurements, Kang Hyun’s investigation team command remained silently by their side.

Except for the occasional chore in the analysis lab, I just stood there.

In a tense moment.

And as the captain, Kang Hyun, who had found these, stepped forward, Na Ye An opened her mouth with a heavy expression.

“1 kilo is 400 grams.”

“1.4 kilograms.”

“It is a drug that can be used by 26,000 people at the same time.”

26 thousand people.

It’s hard to even imagine the amount harvested in the middle of Seoul.

“Except for customs seizures, this is the largest amount of drugs seized in the Seoul area.”

“Ahem. Even in terms of construction… I see.”

Team leaders Park Min-seong and Hong Seok-hyeon burst into laughter.

They pulled out the amount that thousands of people would do hundreds of times in the middle of Seoul.

There was no way of knowing how complex the conspiracy might be in the case they were investigating now.